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Trump will do a pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly

President-elect Donald Trump is to be sworn in Friday.
President-elect Donald Trump is to be sworn in Friday.
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President-elect Donald Trump will sit for an interview with Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly before the Fox network’s Feb. 5 telecast of the Super Bowl.

Trump — who will be sworn in as president Friday — will follow President Obama’s annual tradition of giving a sit-down chat with the news organization of the network that carries the Super Bowl. That football game is the most-watched TV program of the year.

O’Reilly interviewed Obama before the Fox telecasts in 2011 and 2014. In 2015, Obama talked with Savannah Guthrie, co-anchor of NBC’s “Today.” Last year, “CBS This Morning” co-anchor Gayle King talked with Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama before Super Bowl 50.

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O’Reilly is to tape his interview with Trump at the White House. The conversation will be shown during Fox’s pre-game show at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Additional portions of their talk will air on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on Feb. 6.

Trump made numerous appearances on “The O’Reilly Factor” as a candidate for the White House. The pre-Super Bowl interview is to be his first with O’Reilly since being elected.

stephen.battaglio@latimes.com

Twitter: @SteveBattaglio

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